Latest Contributions by LaurenMcArtney

Kia Ora LocalMaps Community! So we have been a bit busy since the 2.3.1 release! Planning for the next year and beyond (you have lots to look forward to so stay tuned). Hopefully many of you will have seen and submitted answers to our recent Integration Survey where we were asking for feedback on what systems you might see benefit in Integrating with LocalMaps. If you haven't had this sent to you, please touch base with me and I will make sure you can get your vote in! Integration aside, lets talk Reporting. Since 2.3.1 was released we have had a some great opportunities to work with many of you on how LocalMaps can be used for some more complex reporting needs. You guys are pushing the limits and we want to help you get there. From this, we thought it might be useful to extend some examples as well as tips and tricks on LocalMaps reporting to the wider Community! This has come from some recent work we did with Napier City Council around converting an existing LIM report process into a LocalMaps Report for users to generate themselves. Now before we crack into that, we need to introduce a new face around here - @JoshGore! Some of you may have worked with Josh already but he recently has joined us as a GIS Developer in the LocalMaps Product Team - and he has been very busy already! In fact, Josh has been leading a lot of work around reporting improvements and configuration needs with customers.  Instead of writing this all out in a long winded blog post, we have some much more interesting videos! Josh has kindly put together some "How-to" videos covering some useful concepts such as LIM Reporting, working with Tables and creating title pages.  Huge thank you to the great team at Napier  City Council for allowing us to share their report use case and show off what they have created for their users with LocalMaps. Check it out below! Video:  LIM Reporting Overview       Video: LocalMaps Report Templates and Title Pages     Video: LocalMaps Report Tables and Title elements     Keep an eye on Geonet for more updates from the LocalMaps Team in the coming months. We are also collating the ideas you have put into Geonet so far for future versions of LocalMaps - some great thoughts out there! Remember to keep voting as we will be taking an audit of these shortly and sending out some more questions to help us make sure future versions of LocalMaps are fit for your workflows. Stay tuned!   Nga Mihi,   The LocalMaps Team ... View more

Kia Ora LocalMaps Community!   As promised, LocalMaps 2.3.1 is now available - please contact your Eagle Account Manager to learn more about how to get this applied to your LocalMaps Site.   In this release we have focused primarily on quality fixes, addressing some minor bugs and enhancing the quality of the Product. For full details on what has been addressed in 2.3.1 check out our 2.3.1 Patch Release Notes. We have also made some cool changes to the Report table design process - hopefully making things a bit more intuitive and easy to set up!   In addition to this, we have been working hard to provide you more information, Admin FAQ's, User FAQ's and Best practise recommendations to make the most out of your LocalMaps site. These cover various aspects of Web GIS Publishing such as Optimizing Webmaps, Tips for Publishing Services, Optimising for Fast Printing, Optimizing Reporting and a Data decision tree.   Also note that we intend for this to be the last version until v3.0 - the next generation of LocalMaps which will be released in 2021.   Contact your Account manager today for more information!   Nga Mihi,   The LocalMaps Team ... View more

Note: Edited 25/09/2020 - 2.3.1 Release Date extended to Thursday 1st Oct. Hi Everyone,   As hopefully you all know, we have been working this year on a 2.3.1 Quality Patch for LocalMaps! Hopefully you all got to see the updates on LocalMaps and v2.3.1 at the recent Virtual New Zealand Esri User Conference. If not, no worries - you can watch the Plenary Session here (LocalMaps is at 34.55mins).   Watch the NZEUC 2020 Plenary   This patch has been designed specifically to address some quality updates we wanted to ensure you all had before we focus on the next generation of LocalMaps - Version 3.x due out in 2021.   2.3.1 will be available from Monday 28th September 2020. Thursday 1st Oct. Below is some key information you need to know about this patch, how to get it and where to go for more details come the 1st.   This is a quality patch focusing on bug fixes, usability refinements and introducing some best practice workflow tips and tricks. This patch does not introduce many new enhancements (although we snuck in a few because they were such cool ideas!). Enhancements that have come in since v2.3 have been reviewed and will be addressed for version 3.x and beyond. Alongside the release, we will have the following information available on the LocalMaps Help Wiki from the 1st Oct. A detailed list of what has been addressed in 2.3.1. Best practice workflows on: Optimizing Webmaps Tips for Publishing Services Optimizing for Fast Printing Optimizing Reporting Data decision trees. FAQ's & Known Issues Troubleshooting Tips 2.3.1 is an optional patch, Version 2.3. is our major release and will also be fully supported going forward.   For those eager users out there who want more information now on how to get the patch, pricing and timeframes please contact your Account Manager.    We will be updating you next week when 2.3.1 is out - so keep an eye out here on Geonet for more information! Cheers, The LocalMaps Team ... View more